[XeTeX] Multiple citation styles in a single document

[Gareth Hughes]

Gerrit Glabbart wrote:
> Am 20.09.2010 um 18:25 schrieb Gareth Hughes:
> 
>> Gerrit Glabbart wrote:
>>> Am 20.09.2010 um 16:57 schrieb Gareth Hughes:
>>> 
>>>> Seeing as the printing of the language name is part of the
>>>> style, you could write a simple style file that copies the
>>>> standard style you want to use, but alters the printing of
>>>> language names. This would allow BibLaTeX to use the language
>>>> field without printing it.
>>>> 
>>> I believe that’s what the »hyphenation« field is for (p. 23 in
>>> the biblatex manual). (A small number of) European languages
>>> only, for the time being, but still.
>> I think that only loads hyphenation patterns, but does not wrap the
>>  entry in a language environment or select bibliographical style
>> variants based on the language.
> 
>> From the manual: »This information may be used to switch
>> hyphenation patterns *and localize strings in the bibliography*.«
>> Also peruse the options on page 41, namely ›clearlang‹ and ›babel‹.
>> ›babel=other‹ will enclose the entry in an otherlanguage
>> environment.
> 
> So, »editor« becomes »Herausgeber« in German, for instance, ›pp.‹
> becomes ›S.‹ and so forth. I’m not sure what you mean by
> ›bibliographical style variants based on the language‹; surely, the
> bibliography should be as consistent as possible?

I didn't realise that that field operated on localisation strings too.
That's good news. However, I don't believe that it is able to change
inner quotes (seeing as outer quotes should be of the bibliography
language), or punctuation. In English, we write <title>: <subtitle> or
<title>. <subtitle>, but, in French, we write <title> : <subtitle>. Can
this be controlled by use of the hyphenation field?

Gareth.